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Nature 409, 448-450 (25 January 2001) | doi:10.1038/35054225
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Bringing supernovae down to Earth
Alexander Hellemans1
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Nuclear physicists, accelerator physicists and astrophysicists are planning a journey into uncharted territory — studying the nuclear processes that occur when massive stars explode. Alexander Hellemans reports.
When the great Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev pieced together his periodic table of the elements, little did he know that many of its members were created in huge cosmic explosions called supernovae. Elements lighter than iron can be formed by nuclear fusion in stars.
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